--- title: At last Ilyá arrived at the nest, which was spread above twelve oaks… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics description: At last Ilyá arrived at the nest, which was spread above twelve oaks, and the Nightingale Robber was sitting in the nest, saw the white Russian knight approaching, and began to whistle with all of his might, essaying to smite Ilyá Múromets to death. Who acts: Nightingale Robber, white Russian knight --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/31/80/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Folk-Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/) / [Opening, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/31/) / 80 # Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 80 At last Ilyá arrived at the nest, which was spread above twelve oaks, and the Nightingale Robber was sitting in the nest, saw the white Russian knight approaching, and began to whistle with all of his might, essaying to smite Ilyá Múromets to death. **Who acts:** Nightingale Robber, white Russian knight · **What happens:** arrive, spread, sit, see, approach, begin · **To what, where:** last Ilyá, nest, twelve oaks, white Russian knight, Ilyá Múromets This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nightingale Robber, white Russian knight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg62509:31:80 # text = At last Ilyá arrived at the nest, which was spread above twelve oaks, and the Nightingale Robber was sitting in the nest, saw the white Russian knight approaching, and began to whistle with all of his might, essaying to smite Ilyá Múromets to death. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Ilyá Ilyá PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 4 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 above above ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 oaks oak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 Nightingale Nightingale PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 Robber Robber PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 Russian Russian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 31 approaching approach VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 whistle whistle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 36 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 essaying essay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 advcl _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 smite smite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 xcomp _ _ 46 Ilyá Ilyá PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 Múromets múromet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obj _ _ 48 to to ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arrive** | past | | | | last Ilyá | | at the nest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **spread** | past · passive | | the nest | | twelve oaks | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme above oak=Destination | | 3 | **sit** | past · progressive | the Nightingale Robber | | | the nest | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in nest=Location | | 4 | **see** | past | | the white Russian knight | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knight=Stimulus | | 5 | **approach** | gerund | the white Russian knight *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **begin** | past | | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **whistle** | to-infinitive | | | | | | with all | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with all=Theme | | 8 | **essay** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **smite** | to-infinitive | | Ilyá Múromets | | | | to death *result* | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent múromet=Patient to death=Result | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/31/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/31/81/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/31/)